My stepmum has recently got her horses involved in a little showing, they've had some great feedback and one of the comments is to improve her cobs way of going, I.e not to be a llama lol!
We decided to try him in my Pessoa. In talking to her neighbour who is meant to be a top dressage order whilst he was giving one of her riders a lesson he told her to ditch the Pessoa idea, and to instead tack him up in the stable and leave him there with his head strapped in with the reins behind his saddle!!
She had been mentioning what a good instructor he is and that I should have a lesson from him but I'm happy with my RI and am definitely not going to be heading over to him after that comment.
Apparently that's the way he trains all his young horses and it saves all the time and effort of a Pessoa!!
Now I know some people love or hate the Pessoa and regardless of whether you like the Pessoa, I'm sure you can all agree it's better than this blokes methods!
I pointed out to her that it's all well and good strapping the horse in but what about the little horses' actual way of going?! That's not going to encourage him to come through from behind, trying to explain to her that the head position is secondary to everything else.
I made it clear after his comment I definitely wouldn't be planning a lesson with him, just hoping the kids don't have too many more either else I will have a lot of work to undo...
We decided to try him in my Pessoa. In talking to her neighbour who is meant to be a top dressage order whilst he was giving one of her riders a lesson he told her to ditch the Pessoa idea, and to instead tack him up in the stable and leave him there with his head strapped in with the reins behind his saddle!!
She had been mentioning what a good instructor he is and that I should have a lesson from him but I'm happy with my RI and am definitely not going to be heading over to him after that comment.
Apparently that's the way he trains all his young horses and it saves all the time and effort of a Pessoa!!
Now I know some people love or hate the Pessoa and regardless of whether you like the Pessoa, I'm sure you can all agree it's better than this blokes methods!
I pointed out to her that it's all well and good strapping the horse in but what about the little horses' actual way of going?! That's not going to encourage him to come through from behind, trying to explain to her that the head position is secondary to everything else.
I made it clear after his comment I definitely wouldn't be planning a lesson with him, just hoping the kids don't have too many more either else I will have a lot of work to undo...